Chef Tusk went to Japan and brought back a wooden plate. He wanted them for bread service at Quince, but in Walnut. I made two samples. One in Eastern Black Walnut (Juglans nigra), the other in Peruvian Walnut (Juglans spp.) to match the bread boxes. The first few plates took me about half an hour […]
I was asked to make some canapé serving pieces for Quince. Based on the feedback from Chef Tusk, I turned more prototypes on the wood lathe. There were probably 4 or 5 iterations before finding a final shape that worked. This is one of the earlier versions, and I’m going to skip over most of […]
Salt Cellars produced for the salt show at Fouladi Projects on Market in San Francisco. The concrete is cast in a plastic form and the wood lids are turned on the lathe. There are three sizes of concrete, the medium and larger cellars have lids. Scoops carved from Eucalyptus bark.
Heath Ceramics is a really nice company in Sausalito, just over the golden gate bridge from san francisco. I bought this jar a year or two ago but haven’t put anything in it because it didn’t have a lid. Yesterday I finally made a lid for it from a piece of claro walnut that was […]
I started blowing glass again at a studio in berkeley. The guy who runs the place makes sconces for lamps, and he was throwing away a white cylinder that didn’t make the cut. It was about 12″ long, with some marks in the middle from the tools. I cut it down on the saw to […]
Yesterday I spent some time turning wood lids for the concrete salt cellars I’ve been working on. Woodworkers call this wood Claro Walnut (Juglans Hindsii), but it’s also known as Northern California Walnut because it grows around these parts. Unfortunately it’s seriously endangered, so either don’t use it, or use it while you still can, […]